LIVE-IN MACHINE / WORK-ON MACHINE

RAQUEL

making of RAQUEL
Zürich studio

2016SWITZERLANDATELIER

BRACING PASTA PARROT EASTSIDE

acrylic, spray, alutape on wall
Teiggi Areal Kriens
side 1 & 2

this area was built in 1868 as a noodle factory
since 40 years it has been used as a exhibition off space, artist and musician studios, garden, a super good pizzaria, a carpet shop and last but not least the kindergarden «Papagei» (parrot) which gave the inspiration to paint this huge bird.

as so many other old factory areas it has been left untended all these years and now this one too will soon be torn down.
another part of history erased.
only preserved on photographs
not anymore to be lived in and experienced.
places that smell of old wood.
the parrot will hold tight till he'll get fed the demolition pear.

BRACING PASTA PARROT

acrylic, spray, alutape on wall
Teiggi Areal Kriens
side 1 & 2

this area was built in 1868 as a noodle factory
since 40 years it has been used as a exhibition off space, artist and musician studios, garden, a super good pizzaria, a carpet shop and last but not least the kindergarden «Papagei» (parrot) which gave the inspiration to paint this huge bird.

as so many other old factory areas it has been left untended all these years and now this one too will soon be torn down.
another part of history erased.
only preserved on photographs
not anymore to be lived in and experienced.
places that smell of old wood.
the parrot will hold tight till he'll get fed the demolition pear.

BRACING PASTA PARROT WESTSIDE

acrylic, spray, alutape on wall
Teiggi Areal Kriens
side 3 & 4

this area was built in 1868 as a noodle factory
since 40 years it has been used as a exhibition off space, artist and musician studios, garden, a super good pizzaria, a carpet shop and last but not least the kindergarden «Papagei» (parrot) which gave the inspiration to paint this huge bird.

as so many other old factory areas it has been left untended all these years and now this one too will soon be torn down.
another part of history erased.
only preserved on photographs
not anymore to be lived in and experienced.
places that smell of old wood.
the parrot will hold tight till he'll get fed the demolition pear.

BRACING PASTA PARROT SIGNATURE

acrylic, spray, alutape on wall
Teiggi Areal Kriens
side 1 & 2

this area was built in 1868 as a noodle factory
since 40 years it has been used as a exhibition off space, artist and musician studios, garden, a super good pizzaria, a carpet shop and last but not least the kindergarden «Papagei» (parrot) which gave the inspiration to paint this huge bird.

as so many other old factory areas it has been left untended all these years and now this one too will soon be torn down.
another part of history erased.
only preserved on photographs
not anymore to be lived in and experienced.
places that smell of old wood.
the parrot will hold tight till he'll get fed the demolition pear.

RIO STUDIO

BICHO-PREGUIÇA | ZEBRA | PAVÃO | MOÇA

PAVÃO

drawing
Rio de Janeiro

2016BRASILINKPAPER

PAVÕES

acrilic, spray on wall
Gloria, Rio de Janeiro
01/2016

2016BRASILACRYLICSPRAYWALL

HILDA

inspired by the name of the street,
meaning the warrior
a portrait over four windows
a arrow in the hand
walking barefeet into winter
only her full body overcoat
and the lights give warmth
to the following wintermonths
it lights up every evening from 16h — 20h
10/30/2015 — 06/2016
Kunstfenster H10
Hildastrasse 10 Zürich

2015SWITZERLANDACRYLICALUTAPELIGHTCHAINSPRAYWALLMURAL

HILDA CLOSER

inspired by the name of the street,
meaning the warrior
a portrait over four windows
a arrow in the hand
walking barefeet into winter
only her full body overcoat
and the lights give warmth
to the following wintermonths
it lights up every evening from 16h — 20h
10/30/2015 — 06/2016
Kunstfenster H10
Hildastrasse 10 Zürich

PEGASUS & FOAL

FISHFINGER / FINGERFOOD

Darawi, Mumbai 2014
St+art festival

high above in the sky
windy air like wavy water
deep down in the ocean
on a rooftop full of garbage
thoughts of plastic in the sea
thoughts of murdered animals through eaten plastic
desire to change peoples habit of throwing garbage mindlessly away
letting it float into wherever
letting it suffocate our habitat
remembering childhood days when we liked fish as sticks
calling them fishfingers
twisted thoughts on what if fish would eat us like we eat them
(audio-read Schätzing's «The Swarm»)
exhausted from Mumbai madness
exhausted from New Friends
happy afterall
yolo

2014INDIAACRYLICALUTAPECARVINGSPRAYWALLMURAL

NEW FRIENDS

Mumbai 2014
St+art India festival

animals as humans
many different characters
many different realities and perspectives
sharing this life, now, on this planet, here, today
interacting, with friction, love and care
an encouragement for respect of each others diversity
make the best of what you have, wherever you are
see the beauty present in this moment
put your smartphone aside once in a while
be 100% animal
live now
samo

THANK YOU & LOVE to all who stood down there and watched for hours and hours and the alutape-cutting-crew!
photo credits: Thomas W Meyer

JUNGKUNST

WÄSCHBÄR MIT DEM GOLDENEN EI /

RACOON WITH THE GOLDEN EGG
digging through trash
shockolate, cacao with adrenalin
polluting uselessness
d.i.y., containering and occupation
is happiness with not needing much
is like holding the golden egg
it's like beeing a racoon sometimes

the original is situated at Grimmstrasse Halle / Germany
A.Y.C.P. - Freiraumgalerie Halle/Saale

I cannot put the gratitude in words for the experience of this week!
Thank you all for the amazing commitment and time!!!

2014GERMANYACRYLICALUTAPESPRAYWALLMURAL

GEPÄCKAUSGABE 1.1

the Gepäckausgabe used to be the former luggage storage space of the trainstation Glarus, situated next to the Kunsthaus Glarus. After beeing Abandoned for some years the curators Katharina Lang and Martina Jakober invited artists, one after the other, to work and live for a week in the space and transform it by reacting on the already present traces of the past as its former storage use and on the interventions of the previous artist.

My interaction was to separate the space in squares, all with materials found in the room. the only things i brought along was buckets of silver-tape, white, black, yellow, red, and blue paint, a jigsaw and a drillingmachine. while cutting out the linoleum square on the floor I found bits of newspapers from the 1950ies which I collaged in the counter window, bits of talks from the past which still can be red from both sides. also the cut away linoleum showed a monotype print from all the feet which have walked over it in the past 65 years, rupping the dirt into the cardboard. On the hanging square in the middle of the room visitores were asked to store their travelling stories on a pies of paper, knotted to a square made of batten.

GEPÄCKAUSGABE 1.2

the Gepäckausgabe used to be the former luggage storage space of the trainstation Glarus, situated next to the Kunsthaus Glarus. After beeing Abandoned for some years the curators Katharina Lang and Martina Jakober invited artists, one after the other, to work and live for a week in the space and transform it by reacting on the already present traces of the past as its former storage use and on the interventions of the previous artist.

My interaction was to separate the space in squares, all with materials found in the room. the only things i brought along was buckets of silver-tape, white, black, yellow, red, and blue paint, a jigsaw and a drillingmachine. while cutting out the linoleum square on the floor I found bits of newspapers from the 1950ies which I collaged in the counter window, bits of talks from the past which still can be red from both sides. also the cut away linoleum showed a monotype print from all the feet which have walked over it in the past 65 years, rupping the dirt into the cardboard. On the hanging square in the middle of the room visitores were asked to store their travelling stories on a pies of paper, knotted to a square made of batten.

GEPÄCHAUSGABE 2.1

the Gepäckausgabe used to be the former luggage storage space of the trainstation Glarus, situated next to the Kunsthaus Glarus. After beeing Abandoned for some years the curators Katharina Lang and Martina Jakober invited artists, one after the other, to work and live for a week in the space and transform it by reacting on the already present traces of the past as its former storage use and on the interventions of the previous artist.

My interaction was to separate the space in squares, all with materials found in the room. the only things i brought along was buckets of silver-tape, white, black, yellow, red, and blue paint, a jigsaw and a drillingmachine. while cutting out the linoleum square on the floor I found bits of newspapers from the 1950ies which I collaged in the counter window, bits of talks from the past which still can be red from both sides. also the cut away linoleum showed a monotype print from all the feet which have walked over it in the past 65 years, rupping the dirt into the cardboard. On the hanging square in the middle of the room visitores were asked to store their travelling stories on a pies of paper, knotted to a square made of batten.

GEPÄCKAUSGABE 2.3

the Gepäckausgabe used to be the former luggage storage space of the trainstation Glarus, situated next to the Kunsthaus Glarus. After beeing Abandoned for some years the curators Katharina Lang and Martina Jakober invited artists, one after the other, to work and live for a week in the space and transform it by reacting on the already present traces of the past as its former storage use and on the interventions of the previous artist.

My interaction was to separate the space in squares, all with materials found in the room. the only things i brought along was buckets of silver-tape, white, black, yellow, red, and blue paint, a jigsaw and a drillingmachine. while cutting out the linoleum square on the floor I found bits of newspapers from the 1950ies which I collaged in the counter window, bits of talks from the past which still can be red from both sides. also the cut away linoleum showed a monotype print from all the feet which have walked over it in the past 65 years, rupping the dirt into the cardboard. On the hanging square in the middle of the room visitores were asked to store their travelling stories on a pies of paper, knotted to a square made of batten.

GEPÄCKAUSGABE 2 .4

the Gepäckausgabe used to be the former luggage storage space of the trainstation Glarus, situated next to the Kunsthaus Glarus. After beeing Abandoned for some years the curators Katharina Lang and Martina Jakober invited artists, one after the other, to work and live for a week in the space and transform it by reacting on the already present traces of the past as its former storage use and on the interventions of the previous artist.

My interaction was to separate the space in squares, all with materials found in the room. the only things i brought along was buckets of silver-tape, white, black, yellow, red, and blue paint, a jigsaw and a drillingmachine. while cutting out the linoleum square on the floor I found bits of newspapers from the 1950ies which I collaged in the counter window, bits of talks from the past which still can be red from both sides. also the cut away linoleum showed a monotype print from all the feet which have walked over it in the past 65 years, rupping the dirt into the cardboard. On the hanging square in the middle of the room visitores were asked to store their travelling stories on a pies of paper, knotted to a square made of batten.

GEPÄCKAUSGABE 2.5

the Gepäckausgabe used to be the former luggage storage space of the trainstation Glarus, situated next to the Kunsthaus Glarus. After beeing Abandoned for some years the curators Katharina Lang and Martina Jakober invited artists, one after the other, to work and live for a week in the space and transform it by reacting on the already present traces of the past as its former storage use and on the interventions of the previous artist.

My interaction was to separate the space in squares, all with materials found in the room. the only things i brought along was buckets of silver-tape, white, black, yellow, red, and blue paint, a jigsaw and a drillingmachine. while cutting out the linoleum square on the floor I found bits of newspapers from the 1950ies which I collaged in the counter window, bits of talks from the past which still can be red from both sides. also the cut away linoleum showed a monotype print from all the feet which have walked over it in the past 65 years, rupping the dirt into the cardboard. On the hanging square in the middle of the room visitores were asked to store their travelling stories on a pies of paper, knotted to a square made of batten.

GEPÄCKAUSGABE 3.1

the Gepäckausgabe used to be the former luggage storage space of the trainstation Glarus, situated next to the Kunsthaus Glarus. After beeing Abandoned for some years the curators Katharina Lang and Martina Jakober invited artists, one after the other, to work and live for a week in the space and transform it by reacting on the already present traces of the past as its former storage use and on the interventions of the previous artist.

My interaction was to separate the space in squares, all with materials found in the room. the only things i brought along was buckets of silver-tape, white, black, yellow, red, and blue paint, a jigsaw and a drillingmachine. while cutting out the linoleum square on the floor I found bits of newspapers from the 1950ies which I collaged in the counter window, bits of talks from the past which still can be red from both sides. also the cut away linoleum showed a monotype print from all the feet which have walked over it in the past 65 years, rupping the dirt into the cardboard. On the hanging square in the middle of the room visitores were asked to store their travelling stories on a pies of paper, knotted to a square made of batten.

GEPÄCKAUSGABE 3.2

the Gepäckausgabe used to be the former luggage storage space of the trainstation Glarus, situated next to the Kunsthaus Glarus. After beeing Abandoned for some years the curators Katharina Lang and Martina Jakober invited artists, one after the other, to work and live for a week in the space and transform it by reacting on the already present traces of the past as its former storage use and on the interventions of the previous artist.

My interaction was to separate the space in squares, all with materials found in the room. the only things i brought along was buckets of silver-tape, white, black, yellow, red, and blue paint, a jigsaw and a drillingmachine. while cutting out the linoleum square on the floor I found bits of newspapers from the 1950ies which I collaged in the counter window, bits of talks from the past which still can be red from both sides. also the cut away linoleum showed a monotype print from all the feet which have walked over it in the past 65 years, rupping the dirt into the cardboard. On the hanging square in the middle of the room visitores were asked to store their travelling stories on a pies of paper, knotted to a square made of batten.

GEPÄCKAUSGABE 3.3

the Gepäckausgabe used to be the former luggage storage space of the trainstation Glarus, situated next to the Kunsthaus Glarus. After beeing Abandoned for some years the curators Katharina Lang and Martina Jakober invited artists, one after the other, to work and live for a week in the space and transform it by reacting on the already present traces of the past as its former storage use and on the interventions of the previous artist.

My interaction was to separate the space in squares, all with materials found in the room. the only things i brought along was buckets of silver-tape, white, black, yellow, red, and blue paint, a jigsaw and a drillingmachine. while cutting out the linoleum square on the floor I found bits of newspapers from the 1950ies which I collaged in the counter window, bits of talks from the past which still can be red from both sides. also the cut away linoleum showed a monotype print from all the feet which have walked over it in the past 65 years, rupping the dirt into the cardboard. On the hanging square in the middle of the room visitores were asked to store their travelling stories on a pies of paper, knotted to a square made of batten.

GEPÄCKAUSGABE 3.4

the Gepäckausgabe used to be the former luggage storage space of the trainstation Glarus, situated next to the Kunsthaus Glarus. After beeing Abandoned for some years the curators Katharina Lang and Martina Jakober invited artists, one after the other, to work and live for a week in the space and transform it by reacting on the already present traces of the past as its former storage use and on the interventions of the previous artist.

My interaction was to separate the space in squares, all with materials found in the room. the only things i brought along was buckets of silver-tape, white, black, yellow, red, and blue paint, a jigsaw and a drillingmachine. while cutting out the linoleum square on the floor I found bits of newspapers from the 1950ies which I collaged in the counter window, bits of talks from the past which still can be red from both sides. also the cut away linoleum showed a monotype print from all the feet which have walked over it in the past 65 years, rupping the dirt into the cardboard. On the hanging square in the middle of the room visitores were asked to store their travelling stories on a pies of paper, knotted to a square made of batten.

ZEUS & EUROPA

acrylic on canvas
110 x 90 cm
Zürich 2014

2014SWITZERLANDACRYLICCARVINGATELIERCANVAS

GOCKEL / COCK

ink on archival paper
17.8 x 21cm
Zürich 2014

first of august
swiss national day in a chalet
with a view on the Matterhorn
roasted vegetables on a big big big fire
plus a gold-rain-vulcano in the rain
blisters on my feet from hiking
through smelling swiss stone pines woods
and meadows of alp-flowers in all colors
the wakening tuuuiiit tuuuuit of the marmot
drawing the cock-a-doodle-doo
like traditional papercut

for further information regarding to purchase this work
please write an e-mail

2014SWITZERLANDINKATELIERPAPER

UHU QUICKIE

summer, friends, paint & diving from bridges

2014SWITZERLANDACRYLICALUTAPESPRAYMETALLWALL

RAINY PEACOCK

rainy 17°C july evening
good time to wash away colours over canvases
and paint a rainy peacock

acrylic, graphite on canvas
70 x 90 cm (streched)
Zürich 2014

for further information regarding to purchase this work
please write an e-mail

HEY DU I .... YOU! — CHICK & EGG

TAGESANZEIGER 28/06/2014

Bellevue
Tagesanzeiger 28/06/2014

not everything written in a newspaper is true

2014SWITZERLANDPUBLICATION

GOLDFISH — HOUSE

gray ponds
regular fish
daily «did you see what they did»
inner uproar because of a crane
inner uproar because of some paint
along swim some glittery rainbowfishes
share their scales with all the gales
change the chit-chat towards tales

HOT DOG LEGS

Maja Hürst's mini solo exposition / installation AQUATIKA is an examination of water, the artists favourite element. The installation invites the visitor to dry-dive over twenty works on paper, canvas or wood which elaborate water.

2014SWITZERLANDACRYLICALUTAPENEEDELSSPRAYCANVAS.EXPOSITIONAQUATIKA

MIT NEUN WASSERN GEWASCHEN

Maja Hürst's mini solo exposition / installation AQUATIKA is an examination of water, the artists favourite element. The installation invites the visitor to dry-dive over twenty works on paper, canvas or wood which elaborate water.

2014SWITZERLANDACRYLICPAPER.EXPOSITIONAQUATIKA

MEERJUNGFRAU / MERMAID

Maja Hürst's mini solo exposition / installation AQUATIKA is an examination of water, the artists favourite element. The installation invites the visitor to dry-dive over twenty works on paper, canvas or wood which elaborate water.

2014SWITZERLANDACRYLICALUTAPEGRAPHITENEEDELSPAPER.EXPOSITIONAQUATIKA

FLASCHENPOST / MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE

Maja Hürst's mini solo exposition / installation AQUATIKA is an examination of water, the artists favourite element. The installation invites the visitor to dry-dive over twenty works on paper, canvas or wood which elaborate water.

2014SWITZERLANDINSTALLATION.EXPOSITIONAQUATIKA

CARACOL DE CAVEIRA

Maja Hürst's mini solo exposition / installation AQUATIKA is an examination of water, the artists favourite element. The installation invites the visitor to dry-dive over twenty works on paper, canvas or wood which elaborate water.

2014SWITZERLANDINSTALLATION.EXPOSITIONAQUATIKA

AQUATIKA INSTALLATION VIEW

Maja Hürst's mini solo exposition / installation AQUATIKA is an examination of water, the artists favourite element. The installation invites the visitor to dry-dive over twenty works on paper, canvas or wood which elaborate water.

2014SWITZERLANDINSTALLATION.EXPOSITIONAQUATIKA

TINTENFISCH / OCTOPUS

Maja Hürst's mini solo exposition / installation AQUATIKA is an examination of water, the artists favourite element. The installation invites the visitor to dry-dive over twenty works on paper, canvas or wood which elaborate water.

2014SWITZERLANDACRYLICALUTAPEINKNEEDELSCANVAS.EXPOSITIONAQUATIKA

AQUATIKA INSTALLATION VIEW 2

Maja Hürst's mini solo exposition / installation AQUATIKA is an examination of water, the artists favourite element. The installation invites the visitor to dry-dive over twenty works on paper, canvas or wood which elaborate water.

2014SWITZERLANDINSTALLATION.EXPOSITIONAQUATIKA

PASSAGES / GALLERY

the cultural magazine of Prohelvetia, No. 62, issue 1/2014

2014SWITZERLANDPUBLICATION

CHROTTEPÖSCHE / DANDELION

a person with a crazy headdress
plucking a dandelion
blowing wishes and ideas
living freedom

BANGKOK POST 23/04/2014

SAWATIKA INSTALLATION — KAH PUPPET

The title of the solo exposition SAWATIKA is a wordplay of the Thai greeting «sawadee — kah» and Maja Hürst visual universe «TIKA». The installation for her first one-person-show in Asia is a retrospect on her experiences during her Bangkok stay as Toot Yung artist in residence from January till April 2014. Each triangle stands for a theme which has occupied the artists mind and work and is held by a hand, one of the TIKA key images. The alutaped shapes are catalyzers resembling the roof of a house, a temple or tree. Most of the artworks have been produced during Hürst's stay in Bangkok.

The title of the solo exposition SAWATIKA is a wordplay of the Thai greeting «sawadee — kah» and Maja Hürst visual universe «TIKA». The installation for her first one-person-show in Asia is a retrospect on her experiences during her Bangkok stay as Toot Yung artist in residence from January till April 2014. Each triangle stands for a theme which has occupied the artists mind and work and is held by a hand, one of the TIKA key images. The alutaped shapes are catalyzers resembling the roof of a house, a temple or tree. Most of the artworks have been produced during Hürst's stay in Bangkok.

The title of the solo exposition SAWATIKA is a wordplay of the Thai greeting «sawadee — kah» and Maja Hürst visual universe «TIKA». The installation for her first one-person-show in Asia is a retrospect on her experiences during her Bangkok stay as Toot Yung artist in residence from January till April 2014. Each triangle stands for a theme which has occupied the artists mind and work and is held by a hand, one of the TIKA key images. The alutaped shapes are catalyzers resembling the roof of a house, a temple or tree. Most of the artworks have been produced during Hürst's stay in Bangkok.

The title of the solo exposition SAWATIKA is a wordplay of the Thai greeting «sawadee — kah» and Maja Hürst visual universe «TIKA». The installation for her first one-person-show in Asia is a retrospect on her experiences during her Bangkok stay as Toot Yung artist in residence from January till April 2014. Each triangle stands for a theme which has occupied the artists mind and work and is held by a hand, one of the TIKA key images. The alutaped shapes are catalyzers resembling the roof of a house, a temple or tree. Most of the artworks have been produced during Hürst's stay in Bangkok.

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KAH PUPPET

The title of the solo exposition SAWATIKA is a wordplay of the Thai greeting «sawadee — kah» and Maja Hürst visual universe «TIKA». The installation for her first one-person-show in Asia is a retrospect on her experiences during her Bangkok stay as Toot Yung artist in residence from January till April 2014. Each triangle stands for a theme which has occupied the artists mind and work and is held by a hand, one of the TIKA key images. The alutaped shapes are catalyzers resembling the roof of a house, a temple or tree. Most of the artworks have been produced during Hürst's stay in Bangkok.

2014THAILANDLIGHTCHAININSTALLATIONSCULPTUREWOOD.EXPOSITIONSAWATIKA

SAWATIKA INSTALLATION — KRAP PUPPET

The title of the solo exposition SAWATIKA is a wordplay of the Thai greeting «sawadee — kah» and Maja Hürst visual universe «TIKA». The installation for her first one-person-show in Asia is a retrospect on her experiences during her Bangkok stay as Toot Yung artist in residence from January till April 2014. Each triangle stands for a theme which has occupied the artists mind and work and is held by a hand, one of the TIKA key images. The alutaped shapes are catalyzers resembling the roof of a house, a temple or tree. Most of the artworks have been produced during Hürst's stay in Bangkok.

2014THAILANDALUTAPEINSTALLATION.EXPOSITIONSAWATIKA

KRAP PUPPET

The title of the solo exposition SAWATIKA is a wordplay of the Thai greeting «sawadee — kah» and Maja Hürst visual universe «TIKA». The installation for her first one-person-show in Asia is a retrospect on her experiences during her Bangkok stay as Toot Yung artist in residence from January till April 2014. Each triangle stands for a theme which has occupied the artists mind and work and is held by a hand, one of the TIKA key images. The alutaped shapes are catalyzers resembling the roof of a house, a temple or tree. Most of the artworks have been produced during Hürst's stay in Bangkok.

The title of the solo exposition SAWATIKA is a wordplay of the Thai greeting «sawadee — kah» and Maja Hürst visual universe «TIKA». The installation for her first one-person-show in Asia is a retrospect on her experiences during her Bangkok stay as Toot Yung artist in residence from January till April 2014. Each triangle stands for a theme which has occupied the artists mind and work and is held by a hand, one of the TIKA key images. The alutaped shapes are catalyzers resembling the roof of a house, a temple or tree. Most of the artworks have been produced during Hürst's stay in Bangkok.

The title of the solo exposition SAWATIKA is a wordplay of the Thai greeting «sawadee — kah» and Maja Hürst visual universe «TIKA». The installation for her first one-person-show in Asia is a retrospect on her experiences during her Bangkok stay as Toot Yung artist in residence from January till April 2014. Each triangle stands for a theme which has occupied the artists mind and work and is held by a hand, one of the TIKA key images. The alutaped shapes are catalyzers resembling the roof of a house, a temple or tree. Most of the artworks have been produced during Hürst's stay in Bangkok.

The title of the solo exposition SAWATIKA is a wordplay of the Thai greeting «sawadee — kah» and Maja Hürst visual universe «TIKA». The installation for her first one-person-show in Asia is a retrospect on her experiences during her Bangkok stay as Toot Yung artist in residence from January till April 2014. Each triangle stands for a theme which has occupied the artists mind and work and is held by a hand, one of the TIKA key images. The alutaped shapes are catalyzers resembling the roof of a house, a temple or tree. Most of the artworks have been produced during Hürst's stay in Bangkok.

The title of the solo exposition SAWATIKA is a wordplay of the Thai greeting «sawadee — kah» and Maja Hürst visual universe «TIKA». The installation for her first one-person-show in Asia is a retrospect on her experiences during her Bangkok stay as Toot Yung artist in residence from January till April 2014. Each triangle stands for a theme which has occupied the artists mind and work and is held by a hand, one of the TIKA key images. The alutaped shapes are catalyzers resembling the roof of a house, a temple or tree. Most of the artworks have been produced during Hürst's stay in Bangkok.

2014THAILANDALUTAPE.EXPOSITIONSAWATIKA

MYRTILLE & VINCHUCA — THE GALLERIST AND HER CAT

The title of the solo exposition SAWATIKA is a wordplay of the Thai greeting «sawadee — kah» and Maja Hürst visual universe «TIKA». The installation for her first one-person-show in Asia is a retrospect on her experiences during her Bangkok stay as Toot Yung artist in residence from January till April 2014. Each triangle stands for a theme which has occupied the artists mind and work and is held by a hand, one of the TIKA key images. The alutaped shapes are catalyzers resembling the roof of a house, a temple or tree. Most of the artworks have been produced during Hürst's stay in Bangkok.

The title of the solo exposition SAWATIKA is a wordplay of the Thai greeting «sawadee — kah» and Maja Hürst visual universe «TIKA». The installation for her first one-person-show in Asia is a retrospect on her experiences during her Bangkok stay as Toot Yung artist in residence from January till April 2014. Each triangle stands for a theme which has occupied the artists mind and work and is held by a hand, one of the TIKA key images. The alutaped shapes are catalyzers resembling the roof of a house, a temple or tree. Most of the artworks have been produced during Hürst's stay in Bangkok.

The title of the solo exposition SAWATIKA is a wordplay of the Thai greeting «sawadee — kah» and Maja Hürst visual universe «TIKA». The installation for her first one-person-show in Asia is a retrospect on her experiences during her Bangkok stay as Toot Yung artist in residence from January till April 2014. Most of the artworks have been produced during Hürst's stay in Bangkok.

2014THAILANDACRYLICALUTAPESPRAYCANVAS.EXPOSITIONSAWATIKA

SAWATIKA INSTALLATION (YARDVIEW)

The title of the solo exposition SAWATIKA is a wordplay of the Thai greeting «sawadee — kah» and Maja Hürst visual universe «TIKA». The installation for her first one-person-show in Asia is a retrospect on her experiences during her Bangkok stay as Toot Yung artist in residence from January till April 2014. Each triangle stands for a theme which has occupied the artists mind and work and is held by a hand, one of the TIKA key images. The alutaped shapes are catalyzers resembling the roof of a house, a temple or tree. Most of the artworks have been produced during Hürst's stay in Bangkok.

STIKA 09/2012

A DAY AT THE RIVER

water is my favourite element and once again a summer full of diving, cannon balls and swimming in the river turns to an end. ... and I still haven't had enough :) so I painted this woman half in the water half reflecting.... with things in reality sometimes beeing much smaller than they seem in the mind.

MERCI Ajana, Thomas & all wo debii xie sind

2012MURAL

EICHELHÄHER EGGHEADBIRD HAT

BINZ BLIIBT BINZ!
BINZ STAYS BINZ!

with RIM Rimon Guimarães
ZÜRICH 08/2012

2012

MRS.WENDAL

The building is host to the music-hall Center Stage since over 60 years. Acts such as the Rolling Stones, Jay Z and Elton John have made music in there. While researching I saw that in September 2012 the Atlanta based Hiphop-Band Arrested Development will give one of their 20 years anniversary concerts at this venue. The first CD I bought from my own pocket-money was their album «3 years 5 month and 2 days in the life of...» to which I've listened to for many years. The song Mr. Wendal was my favorite one. It talks of housless people and their struggle of acceptance in society. As I saw many homeless while driving through the city and as they maybe never be able to listen to a concert at Center Stage I wanted to bring a bit of the music to the outside....

When I first saw the building I straight away saw the kneeling/bowing person. So it became MRS. WENDAl embracing Center Stage as if it was a pocket radio, listening to the music going on inside. Naked and homeless but content. She ain't got much but music.

THANKYOU Thomas, Kief, Devin, Kim, Doodoobut, Trevor, Lucy, Susan, Fletcher, the media Team, all the Living Walls Team and all the helpers, Center Stage staff and a big shoutout to all the supertalented LW 08/12 artists!

the pictures below are:
my online research of homeless women
my online research of Arrested Development
some pictures of Martha Cooper
detail- & prozesspictures we made or found online

DEU ZEBRA / GAVE ZEBRA

GRAFFITEIRAS SOLTANDO OS BIXOS

WRITERS LETTING THE BEASTS LOOSE

8x8m
Cedim, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

My friend Anarkia invited me to paint this mural and have an artist-talk for her students which is the all-girls-graffiti-class Rede Nami. So I made this graffiti-writer riding a beast, half fish half horse.

VALEU Anarkia, Rede Nami, Thomas...

2012MURAL

SEREIA STIKA

3 colour uv-silkscreenprint on transparent stickerfoil A5

2011

KREISLAUF DES WASSERS

CIRCUIT OF WATER

The WASH festival has the aim to help make access to clean water easier for people who nowadays have to walk for hours to the next pond.
Artists from all over the world got selected to contribiute to this idear. I was happy to meet old friends again and make new ones.
Zezao / KLUB7 / Dhear / NAF / Billy / Alaniz / Mittenimwald / Shamsia / Sago / Bitte alles ändern
Thank you viva con agua WASH festival for making this happen and bring all of us together!

each one of us had a wall constructed of pieces of woods in diffrent sizes, colours and textures
my wall had a greenish round shaped part on the left, so it was clear it's gonna be a mami-water tale
the rest of the painting built itself up based on the shapes, textures and colours of the woods, of the imputs we became at the workshop about water-consumption that the Welt-Hunger-Hilfe gave us and of thoughts about circuits in life. Circuits of souls. Circuits of water.

STEFFI (&) THE SWAN

WEDER FISCH NOCH VOGEL

painted this at the Bregenz Freak Wave festival inbetween slackliners, wakeboarders, assbombs into the Bodensee, Dj's bass, skatboarders, cloth- and jewellery-stands, the best woodoven something like pizzas, Kawa's crepes and coffee with supertalks, Käsleberkas and hangover for breakfast every morning not to forget Steffie and the Inoperable Boys ♥

BERLIN BEAR

MAKE LOVE — NOT LOFTS
Berlin-bear in gentrification-chaines

Fuckparade Berlin 08/2011

2011

STILL LOVING ACTIVISM

Spree-Nixe fighting for Freiräume

Fuckparade Berlin 08/2011

2011

AETERNA VANITAS

Outside of Berlin, at the lake Grabowsee, stands an abandoned tuberculosis sanatorium, where a group of ambitioned people is working on realizing a project called kidsglobe.org. A project rooted in the believe that our future lies in the education of our kids. It aims to create a boarding school where kids not only get trained in common knowlege but also in arts, handcrafts, agriculture and how to respect eachother and the nature.

When I first went to paint at Grabowsee I didn't know so much about the project.... it was the day after Amy Winehouses death and my thoughts were circling around dying young. So in the train I had this ruff idea of an animal and a mermaid dancing handing over symbols of vanity to each other.... to paint the moment of full youth, joy and party beeing ripped into eternity.

20x8m, Grabowsee, Oranienburg, artbase 2011

2011MURAL

IKARUS'S SISTER

acrylic, spray & old cinemaletters on wall, St. Pölten 08/2011

2011AUSTRIAACRYLICSPRAYPLASTIKWALLMURAL

RABIESTIKA FOX / RABIESTIKA DEER / RABIESTIKA BABOON

A serie of paintings on and behind glass for my soloshow «RABIESTIKA» in July 2011 in Berlin.

I'm sure you know this feeling when something happens in your life, that seems so wrong and that hurts so much as it must hurt to have a knife stuck straight in your heart. It makes you rage and scream and drives tears of anger in your eyes.... similar to how rabies infected beasts go mad. With white foam infront of the mouth, totally raging out of control.

I made some tests with glass over the last years, the results did not satisfie nor were they worth publishing and when I stumbled over a religous Austrian Hinterglassmalerei painting in a museum plus some dusty frames in our attic I chose to give it a try. The fox, the deer and the baboon made it into the show. Savely trapped behind glass. Like animals in a zoo.

acrylic on and behind glass, framed, 21.7x26.8cm
Berlin 07/2011 sold

2011ATELIERGLASS

MANEGG

acrylic and spray on wall
Zürich 06/2011

2011

THE GAMBIA DIARY DRAWINGS

ink on paper, Wide Open Walls project, The Gambia 06/2011

2011GAMBIAINKATELIERPAPER

JARTO YE GALLOYA

LION OF GALLOYA
acrylic & spray on wall, open walls project, Galloya The Gambia 06/2011
this amazing project was so deep into my heart.... hard to find words for it

2011GAMBIAACRYLICSPRAYWALLMURAL

A LION FOR A FRIEND

acrylic, spray and scratch on canvas, 100x50cm
Zürich 05/2011
sold

2011

YOU WILL NOT BE HARMED BY CROCODILES IF YOU RIDE THE NILE IN A PAPYRUSBOAT

This wall I have dedicated to the saga that Isis went to search for Osiris remains on a papyrusboat and since then, people riding the Nile in a papyrus boat will not be harmed by crocodiles.

I got invited to Egypt for ten days by pro Helvetia and Goethe Institut in the beginning of may 2011. Also invited were Merzedes Gonzales de Garay from Spain, Mickry3 from Switzerland and Amr Ali from Egypt.

Alexandria 05/2011

2011MURAL

OKULTIKA EGYPT

altarlike Installation inspired by the wallpaper and telefon in our apartment, Alexandrian everyday streetlife where time seems to be counting still a bit yesterday, discussions about visas, globalisation, emanzipation...
Alexandria, Egypt 05/2011

2011

HOJA BLANCA / WEISSES BLATT

In december 2010 I got white sheets of paper in my mail in Berlin... so did 26 other artists from Switzerland or Guatemala. I took mine to Cape Town where I painted them in really ugly colours :) .... to then overspray them white again... arriving in Zürich I added some drawings with black ink and scratching. Touesday the 15th of march 2011 at 18h the results of all 26 artists will be shown at the groupshow HOJA BLANCA / WEISSES BLATT at Schmuck Inc / Weinplatz 7 / Zürich before they travel to be exhibited in Guatemala City! more infos at weissesblatt.com

2011ATELIER

KUNSTHAUSNACHT LIVEPAINTING

livepainting at Kunsthaus
Museumsnacht Zürich 12/03/2011

2011

TIKATHEK SOLOSHOW AT SKALITZERS GALLERY BERLIN 2011

TIKATHEK
soloshow
Skalitzers Gallery Berlin
25/03/2011 — 24/04/2011

2011.EXPOSITION

WOODSTOCK PEACOCK

each feather a name of the community!
acrylic and spray on wall, 5x5m
Cape Town, South Africa 03/2011

2011SOUTH-AFRICAACRYLICSPRAYWALLMURAL

KAYELITSHA'S LIONHEAD

At the entrance of the capetonian township Kayelitsha.
It's Erics Fruits & Vegetable business.
In the forehead of the lion is his shopwindow.
I went with Faith47, Dathiny and Dal! BIGUP!!

KAPTIKA SOLOSHOW AT A WORD OF ART CAPE TOWN 2011

KAPTIKA
a solo show by international artist in residency
TIKA
26. February – 8. March 2011
/A WORD OF ART
66 ALBERT RD
WOODSTOCK INDUSTRIAL CENTRE

artist walkabout and preview on the 26. February at 6pm
Opening 26. Feb 8pm till late
with music by Oy (live)
DJ's
Remy Gold
Spoek Mathambo
Binary
Chiri Moya

the residency is kindly sponsored by Pro Helvetia, A Word Of Art, Woodstock Industrial Centre and One K

TIKA's Artist Statement:

TIKA’s work is a reflection on today’s global society, as well as the forgotten traditions and sagas of the past. TIKA has visited many places around the world, not just to travel but to get to know the local people and learn about their current situation along with what histories and traditions they grew up with. Born in Switzerland, TIKA grew up in Cairo, Brussels, Cologne, and Zurich, where she currently lives when not diving her time between Berlin and Rio de Janeiro. The name TIKA originally came from antibiotika, the German word for antibiotics. It’s also hindi-slang for ‘tilaka’, the different blessing-signs that Hindus wear as a symbol of power to protect the third eye. When you’re asked, “How are you?” in Hindi, you reply “TIKA!” to say that you’re fine. She studied at ZHDK but, as the artist explains, “it was learning about the D.I.Y. and cultural squat scene, reading a lot, living in a different places in the world, and painting on the streets that got me where I am today.” “What occupies my mind most is the diversity of points of views on life,” says TIKA. “Like the development of cities, how this affects spaces for self-determined living and projects. How buildings full of history get ripped down to be replaced by glass cubes. The effects globalization has on regional and traditional habits and architecture. Love, vanity and loss of people. How long and short at the same time a life can be and the before and after of it. I like to read about sagas and myth, about the written down and told to be true history and the actual circumstances in politics, economy and environment. What inspires me is everyday life. Random people on the streets, how they dress and talk and, if I get to talk to them, what and how they think. Of course, in the days of Internet I pick up a lot of information and inspiration through there, as well. Still, I try to read and see and think as often as possible without a computer between. When I create, it's like all experiences and thoughts run through me and out again. The feeling of creating while I paint, draw, write or cook is similar: I forget time while I'm at it.”? TIKA has left traces on the streets of Zürich, Bern, Basel, St. Gallen, Glarus, Berlin, Potsdam, Dresden, Munich, Cologne, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Salvador da Bahia, Belo Horizonte, New York, L.A., San Francisco, Paris, Praha, Biarritz, Marseille, Barcelona, Madrid, Milano, London, Vienna, Sofia, Amsterdam, Istanbul, Cape Town, Buenos Aires, Mexico D.F., Gvernavaca, and Puerto Escondido. She has put on solo exhibitions in Amsterdam, Vienna, Berlin, and Rio de Janiero, and participated in various group shows around the world, including New York, L.A., Sofia, Mexico D.F., Milano, and Madrid. TIKA is currently participating in a three month residency in Cape Town through Pro Helvetia, /A WORD OF ART, One k, and the Woodstock Industrial Centre.??“I'm learning a lot about South African history and current effects of Apartheid,” she says. “I will take these imputs and let them go as the view of someone who is not grown up here into my solo show ‘KAPTIKA’ (a mix of the German word KAPSTADT and TIKA). All of the work included will be made during my stay in Cape Town.”

CHAPEL DE URUBU

MONSTRUOS

with Mondo Lila
Buenos Aires 04/2010

2010ARGENTINAACRYLICSPRAYWALL

GUERREIRAS SOLTANDO OS BIXOS — O SOM DO BERIMBAU

WARRIORS LET GO THE BEASTS — THE SOUND OF A BERIMBAU

Swiss cooks have founded the project cuisine sans frontiere with the idear, that food brings together people, is a good opportunity to have conversations and through that creat a better environment. I spent five weeks with a chef and an administrator to translate and paint a mural in the favela Cidade de Plastico in Periperi in Salvador da Bahia.

We danced «rebolation», we ate rice and beans every day, we ran because of shootings and then saw the shot guy get carried away in a hand barrol, we were right next to the beach and every evening there was a sunset like an impresionist painting, the radio refreshed my musicmemories of the 80ies «heal the world», Elton Jhon and Erasure whise, kids drawing on their papers and tables and chairs causing another fight which belonged to the daily routine, dragquenns giving an audience on friday nights. Making new friends and having hours and hours of conversations and beers. Thanks to Cusisine sans Frontier, Sonja und Sonja, MSTB, Natal, Grazielli, Kelly, Emol, Julio, Thais, Bigode, Questão, ICEBE and all the other people!

4x20m
Salvador da Bahia 03/2010

2010

TIKA HELL YEAH ARTICLE

3 page article and interview for the Australian magazine Hell Yeah, Winter 2010

2010PUBLICATION

CARNAVAL NO RIO

Rio de Janeiro 02/2010

2010

OKULTIKA BRAZIL

altarlike Installation inspired by candomble, macumba and umbanda, the grocerys purchased at the market and the overkill of jewellery and costumes produced for carnaval

2010

WALDMANNLI / FORESTMAN

I spent newyear 2009/2010 in this chalet in the swiss mountains in Sedrun, Bündnerland. While searching for tales out of this region i found this one of a «Waldmannli» (small man out of the forest)

In a small mountaintown in Graubünden there lived once a juryman. One day this man found a very bizzare animal in his garden as he has never seen one before. It was a small furry, black animal, with a red nosed snout and big claws but eyes so small it seemed it could not open them and with small sharp vampirelike teeth. He put this creature in a box and wandered in the village to find out what he has found. But no one knew what it was. Not even the books. So the towneldest decided to announce a gathering of all the villagers and mountainpeople. But still nobody had ever seen such a thing. So after long discussions they then decided that it would be best to kill this thing. On the way how to do it they couldn't agree. That's when the Waldmannli stepped forward and asked to have a look at he beast...
which he at once recognised as a harmless mole. Smirkingly he suggested to the villagers to burry it alife. Pleased of this easy, simple and even chep way they burried it alife in the jurymans garden where it has been found.
Broadly grinning the Wldmannli walked off and the mole strated digging the garden till it looked like an acnefaced teenager.

spray and acrylic on wall
Sedrun, Switzerland 01/2010

2010MURAL

UHU NETSTAL

private residence, Netstal 10/2014

2009SWITZERLANDACRYLICSPRAYWALL

FREE THE BIRD

this cat came to visit me alot while I had the visarte studio
Zürich 09/2009

2009

WHEN THE SOUL GOES OUT I

about vanity and how short and the same time long a life is
thoughts on a trainride from Berlin to Zürich 09/2009
ink, penpall and marker on paper, 15x21cm

helping to milk the goats, baking pizza in the woodoven, whatching the Sennen making goatcheese, walking up till the last bits of snow, baking nutbread, roasting bacon, beeing with my Äti Roman, save brushes from the goats curiosity...

Spycherberg Alp, Berner Oberland 07/2009

2009

MIT HERZ UND HIRN / WITH HEART AND BRAIN

with Kboco
Berlin 06/2009

2009

TIKA AMATEUR ARTICLE

Cover & 6 page article for the swiss Magazine Amateur, 06-10/2009

2009PUBLICATION

GIMPEL

han äs Herzeli wien äs Vögeli darum liebeni so ring
Zürich 04/2009

2009

RIOTIKA SOLOSHOW AT SUPALIFE KIOSK BERLIN 2008

RIOTIKA / SUPALIFE edition of 12
silkscreenprint on posterwalls ripped down from the streets
printed by centrifuga
Berlin 10/2010

2008.EXPOSITION

FREE THE LINDWURM

for the ANIMALISTIKA soloshow at Inoperable Gallery Vienna
Vienna 08/2008

2008

FREE THE CAT

for the ANIMALISTIKA soloshow at Inoperable Gallery Vienna
on the train Zürich — Vienna 08/2008

2008

FREE THE FOX

for the ANIMALISTIKA soloshow at Inoperable Gallery Vienna
on the train Zürich — Vienna 08/2008

2008

FUX KITCHEN

acrylic on wall
Zürich 2008

2008

ILLUSTRE BATTLE

with Atzgerei, Adhocrates & Rich-Art
painting a skateramp in the Museumsquartier Vienna 05/2008

2008

FOX & TIKA

Zürich, Switzerland 05/2008

2008

GREEDY PEACOCK

what it has it doesn't like and what it wants it doesn't get
acrylic and alutape on papercut pasteup
Zürich, Switzerland 05/2008

2008

PFAU

acrylic and marker on wood
Zürich 2008

2008

TREES DON'T MEET, PEOPLE DO!

with VGBS, Guifari, Obetre and others
Bruxelles, Belgium 04/2008

2008

PANTER ARMS

acrylic and scratch on wall
Zürich 2008

2008MURAL

RÜEBLIFÜETTERIG / CARROTFEEDING

with Drax OT
Lettä Zürich, Switzerland 03/2008

2008

ESGOTOS

WASTEWATER, with 2501 & Zésão, spray on wall, São Paulo 2008

2008BRASILSPRAYWALL

ESKELETO

SKELETON
with 2501 & Zezão, spray on wall, São Paulo wastewaters 2008

2008BRASILSPRAYWALL

QUICKIE

with 2501 & Zezão, spray on wall, São Paulo 2008

2008BRASIL

OBRIGADA / THANK YOU

thank you to everyone that made my stay in Rio so incredible and a happy 2008 painting
foto: Yasmim Asade
Morro da Gloria, Rio de Janeiro 01/2008